By ALYSSA NIELSEN WS sports reporter West Side’s softball season came to an end this past week after five games. The Pirates started the district tournament on Monday in Malad and finished it in Malad on Thursday with second place. They played West Jefferson in a state play-in game on Saturday. They first played...

By JEAN CARTER Citizen staff writer Clifton City Council members listened to a plea from resident Melena Morgan to either enforce their existing dog ordinance, or do away with it and let the community deal with dog problems on their own. Morgan told the council a neighbor’s dog had gone into her fenced yard...

By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor Simeon Moedl, a former Preston student, recently received an honorary state FFA degree from the Idaho FFA Association at a state Leadership Conference in Twin Falls. It is the highest honor the State FFA can present advocates and supporters of the FFA and agriculture. Only 20 were given...

By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor In order to further help clean the air in Franklin County, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has been awarded a grant under EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program. The $291,000 award will deploy EPA-verified retrofit technologies on diesel engines (vehicles, non-road equipment and generators). The...

By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality requested on Monday Preston modify its municipal code as it applies to garbage and burning. Melissa Gibbs, airshed coordinator for the DEQ in Pocatello, said the city’s ordinance on refuse burning was last updated in 1963 and does not “line-up” with requirements...